Suedi Murekezi, 35, was arrested last month in Kherson, friends and family say
Unlike Drueke and Huynh, Murekezi’s friends and family say he did not participate in any fighting in Ukraine and moved to the country about four years ago, settling in Kherson in 2020.
Murekezi’s friends in Kherson first noticed his disappearance on 8 June, when they saw that his car was no longer parked near his flat. Two days after his disappearance, Leo de Lange, a Dutch friend of Murekezi in Kherson, spotted him in a video circulating on separatists’ Telegram channels. The clip showed a visibly distressed Murekezi in a dark room being ordered to repeat in Russian “glory to the Russian army”.
“Suedi is in peril, he is in a very dangerous situation. The Donetsk People’s Republic has the death penalty and doesn’t adhere to international norms,” said Bryan Stern, a US veteran and Project Dynamo co-founder. “From what I understand, his only crime is that he is an American.”were sentenced to deathDrueke and Huynh, the two American fighters reportedly held with Murekezi, have not yet been sentenced.
“When he called, he told me he wasn’t tortured, but it was hard to know for sure as he was being watched during our conversation.” “Suedi was a bitcoin maximalist,” De Lange said, a term industry insiders use for someone with strong ideological convictions about cryptocurrency’s potential.“He loved how welcoming Ukraine and Ukrainians were. He often said that Kherson was his favourite city, he really liked it here,” said Vladimir.
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